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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: No stereo is ever perfect by drdna on 2008-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Horn loaded ribbons and other Vasyachkin’s tangents.... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
[quote user="Vasyachkin"]things should be PERFECT at least in theory.[/quote] For stereo systems, we start with two small microphones with strictly limited ability to capture an acoustic musical event at a particular combination of phases, reflection...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #155: Knocking and Raising the Horn by Paul S on 2010-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
You might want to try covering a section of plywood with the modified cement/mortar recipe as a test before you write it off as too difficult or too expensive.  Basically, it does pretty much what you ask, and it need not be 2" thick, either; 1/2" or...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #260: A dubious benefit of suspended floor. by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="noviygera"]I feel that the best candidates are metal springs. 1. They won't compress or deteriorate quickly.2. They work good in the used freq. range.3. Easy to replace. Easy to tune by adding or removing springs.4. Easy to float the ent...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: ULF placement and power by jessie.dazzle on 2010-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
Romy wrote:"...The leading idea is to bolt a triangular shape sealed enclosure juts behind the small wall that cover the load bearing beam from the midbass horns..."For a lot of reasons, I'd vote for an alternate placement. You've got that baseme...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: The crisis of perception. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
I pretty much know what I need to do – I need to go for shaper filter built in my power amp. The second order I have no is too impactful to midbass, so I need to do for 2th order or perhaps for 4th and try to integrate it.  Whatever it will be I thin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Some kind of sound? by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Polish Autotech steps up to Universe in Horn-Loaded Speakers  7 Replies 
[quote user="jzagaja"]To make the story short Autotech is a family business located in Lublin, Poland. Younger brothers graduated in mechanical engineering are cars and racing lovers - with scores in Europe as professional drivers and mechanics. One...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Today's visit by Bill on 2023-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 3.0 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  51 Replies 
Was invited over to Romy's today for a listen. In the last two days, he made several small but critical changes in the time alignment, crossovers, and room damping, and the sum of them has brought his system up by several notches producing the best a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Absolutely, middle of the room and 6 feet. by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Dead Points of Live Sound” in Playback Listening  28 Replies 
[quote user="rdrysdale"]Do you think it would be possible to find the proper location by using a smaller pair of speakers, and then substitute in the big horns? At least to get to a close position?[/quote]Absolutely not! The “points” or even the “zon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The lables to stay away from by el`Ol on 2008-10-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Closer to the musicians - closer to the music? in Playback Listening  7 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] You see, in my view, what those smaller labels and big labels do in term up-closed microphones and artificial reverberation (even though it NEVER done properly) is something that event delivers a small tactical advantage ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #80: The Robert Stevenson’s syndrome? by Romy the Cat on 2019-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="jackydai"]Romy, I’m disappointed to see you confront your own belief just to win a debate. It is not my intention to convince you, but if you, after all these years of research on horn flares, think that a twisted flare rate at t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Probably because of the phase coherence and tight dispersion control by ferenc on 2011-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Professional sound systems in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
Actually (probably because of the phase coherence and tight dispersion control) they sound very good even with some basic equipments, like the small 300 USD Parasound zAmp for example, but I like them most with the pro MC2 Audio MC1250 amps or the Fr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Big vs. small. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Constructing LF modules to the limits in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
This is very interesting observation. I am in away envy that Petar went for a set of large woofers (4x23”!). This is the way to go! Unfortunately I did not experiment with it even I had the drivers and means to do it. My problem was with the fact...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Cu then Ag, and sound by Gregm on 2008-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread) in Audio Discussions  54 Replies 
[quote user="be"]Gregm, you wrote: "Yet, the best result -- i.e. most homogeneous sonically -- came from the thinner wires in interconnects."Did you use silver wire for your comparison?[/quote]I used copper in my example above. Later on, I received r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: It might become not what I initially thought by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]I would not restrict myself to the idea that things need to be a certain way or a certain configuration of the drivers or ports based on theory alone. I think it is important to ask what is interesting about the sound that the new...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Bang for back? by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More 6E5P-6C33C amps. in Melquiades Amplifier  22 Replies 
[quote user="vuki"]Anyway, my plan was to make powerful triode NFBless amplifier for relatively small money. I'm really satisfied with what I did. Maybe I should have done GM70 SE, but what would be my next project then?[/quote] The GM70 is a bitch a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Fostex, compression driver MF, aliens and SS [Re: Ronnie's horns] by Ronnie on 2005-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Loudspeakers and headphones in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Yes, all you said about the Fostex and heavy mouth MF seems reasonable. I don't know what's wrong, but I get the feeling that it's sort of hollow-sounding and could be much more loaded. I'll finish the horns completely before any final conclusions.In...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #455: A new house --- again by Scott L on 2016-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]fiogf49gjkf0dWell, that is kind of the end of the little midbass era. As we begin to prepare the moving in a month I removed the Vitavox driver from Midbass horns. The even went unnoticed in my family but I have a lot in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Yes, thats the way to start it by kodomo on 2017-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  87 Replies 
Romy, I am not saying he should go all out on treatments yet but adjusting your playback with a problematic room is not an efficient route to take. I guess we are on the same page Anthony. Before putting your speakers in the room, ha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Player vs. listener by soundstrad on 2014-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Making musical instruments by audio person? in Playback Listening  18 Replies 
Hello, new to the forum... very glad to find it.  I'm a sound guy at a small celtic/trad venue, I've had the opportunity to hear everything from Strads to FO Stanley's.  I'm not professing to be an expert, I've just had the chance to listen to a good...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
As a new concert season is coming up with BSO opening night next week I was sprucing up my recording studio. The machine is 3MHz with 2G memory – plenty run SoundLab5. The SoundLab just record and play, I do absolutely nothing else in this software, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The dissected arrays of sounds for sale. by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reel-to-Reel Tape vs. Raw Better Digital in Didital Things  13 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"] Oh, I see you are absolutely correct. I am very puzzled. As it says on the website, the mastering studios relocated to a new location. Maybe there was no room for the old set-up. I was only in the old studio a few years ago. I sw...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Battery Power; Now More Than Ever by Paul S on 2013-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digi Redux; Drive 1 transport and iDAT-44+ DAC in Didital Things  26 Replies 
I touched on local electricity problems in a recent electricity post.  Briefly, the local nuclear plant has been shut down by concerned politicians after "leaks" were detected.  Setting aside mutated flora and fauna, sound has been worse more of the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Within my handicapped PC system context by Antonio J. on 2007-10-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
which has no low frequencies to speak of, very small room, very insensitive speakers, SS amp... but is the only one that can play 24/88 files, DAC1 file sounds kind of "dated", as if it were recorded in a huge concert hall with tubed electronics and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The Library of Babel by Paul S on 2008-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Signal variation, noise, and effects on circuit topology in Audio Discussions  18 Replies 
Well, I thought there was a lot of this going on all along, but that we just haven't come up with much that is "universal" in the usual, "what do you recommend?" sense yet?  Maybe this is because one person's Cu PIO is another person's...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Expiring Cygnets (Back to Bass-ics) by Paul S on 2009-01-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The low-power SET and dead speakers in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
In my case, the Wright Sound WPA3.5s, with ~8 Watts on tap in A2, could not handle my 97 dB speakers; not because it was not loud enough, but because the distortion was too much of a factor too much of the time, and "bass" was bass-ically A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: My lucky day? by rowuk on 2020-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Perception of bass? in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
Well, I do have 3 channels of DSEP. Dedicated Single Ended Pentode: one channel (bass/mid 30-500 Hz) with a 307A DH pentode feeding two wonderful Fane neodymium Colossus 12" - one from FS to 150 Hz and the second from FS to 500 Hz. OPT with a lot of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #231: It's hard to come back from the dynamic capability of horns to dir... by Edgar= on 2022-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  298 Replies 
The mini skirt analogy is a great fit. That is my experience.Or maybe like that stunning girl has small breasts and one has know the joy of a good handful. There are ways for enhancement and while one could get more, the girl is no more beautiful and...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #84: The Kings are Naked! by twogoodears on 2011-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
I'm following with interest the thread and must say that I'm baffled: Goto's "instructions" are - SIMPLY said - a mix between non-existent and wrong... I love what Goto's did in my system... BUT I think I did more with "my own" care, "my own" taste, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The necessary and unnecessary features. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Note new turntable and inflation in Analog Playback  14 Replies 
I think when we are taking about the today TT we do not mean inventions – there are no inventions that I see in mega-priced turntables. All that I see are small manufactures, very inefficient production, very little market for sale and distribution a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Sancho Panza of Las Vegas by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio critique – open your mind! in Playback Listening  44 Replies 
[quote user="jweiss"]As you sent me a link to this thread, I imagine you would like a response. It seems to me that creating a useful thread on this subject on this website would require you talking about sound systems you have heard and liked, as op...
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